DARSANIKA MAHA PRAVACHANA

or indirectly dependent upon it, has
the representation of causation with-
in itself in so far as it influences and
alters the very conditions of all the
subjective forms that are independ-
ent of experience. As such, the view
that causation is an objective deter-
mination derived through experience
is by no means acceptable. If it is
taken for granted that the represent-
ation of causation is an objective
determination derived through ex-
perience, we are thrown into conflict
with the very conditions of experi-
ence. As a matter of fact, a reference-
of certain sensations to something
which is called an experience of some
object, requires thepre-existence of a
cause of such a reference and thus of
an experience as an experience of an
object. Hence the representation of
causation is not an objective deter-
mination derived through experience-
It is on the other hand a purely
subjective form existing previous to
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